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t: =*= l . vol vm. BARNWELL, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1884. V:-' is - r: ejr Hear the Sirens for the Secoo •* Time. « - - I The ireHTr gallt • moment ilept. The osre were tilent for s apace, I Aepaat He* perl an ehorea.we twept. That were as a remembered face. acvn «tter tapes of hopeless years, In Hades, when the shadows meet. Dun through the mist of many tear*. And strange, and, though a shadow, oWt- Bo seemed the half-remembered shore That slumbered, mirrored In the blue, « ith heavens where wo touched of yora And ports that over-well we knew, ~ Then broke the calm before a breeze > 1'liat sought the secret of the West; , And listlees all wo swept the seas Towards the Island* of the blest / J Deside a golden-sanded bay Wo saw the Sirens, very fair; The flowery bill whereon they lay, The flowers set upon their hair. Their old sweet song came down the Vid Itemombcrod music waxing strong- Ab 1 now no need of eords to bind. No need had we of Orphic song. It once had seemed a little thing To lay our lives down at their feel ti That dying we might bear them sim And dying see their faces sweet Hut now we glanced, and, passing 1, No care had wo to tarry long; Kalnt hope.Hin! rest and memory Wore more than any Siren’s sons —Andrew Lnng'flallada THE ASIATIC CHOfERA. Where It Starta, How It T^vels, and by What Koatl^' There are comparatively nw people r/v now livin" in this countrywho have spread outside of the sanitary cordon or befell but a few persons in the pro tected quarter. We need, therefore, have in our conn- try but little fear of a visit by the As iatic cholera if we bat use the common precautions which modern sanitary scienoo has taught us. Ail vessels ar riving at our shores should bo carefully inspected, all ships coming from in fected ports should be forced to under go a strict quarantine, all emigrants should bo rigidly examined, and the streets and alloys of our cities should bo kept as thoroughly clean as careful and uninterrupted attention can make them. Thus prepared wo may have reasonable hope of escaping the dread visit The united exertions of the Tnost enlfghtened nations may suf fice to prevent the disease from spread ing beyond its original limits; still we had better adopt tho most efficient means ourselves to keep tho destroyer from our boundaries. — Philadelphia Times. Irrigation. West of the Missouri the majority of the surface of the earth is more or less neglected by tho celestial sprinkling pot, and it behooves poor weak man to irrigate artificially wherever he can. Now you can go into California, Utah and Colorado, and by irrigation raise arden sass that will make WORK AND PLAY. How the Colored People Enjoy Them selves Down South, ever witnessed a case of Alatic cho i. prden sass that will make your eyes era, and there is probably o disease 1 MR*; but trough Wyoming, especial- of which mankind in genert standfl in I ^ on the P lains . the mowing greater fear, nml which is tl> object of more superstition. Tho $t of tho dread malady spreading itsuontagion by personal contact, and foowing in its march the main roads of tommorce induced Eugene Sue to sclecv Ahasuo- season is confined to the time between July 31 and August 1. So that things don’t have time to mature. I will ex cept promissory notes paying two per cent, per month, however. The season is so abrupt, and when it As ms as tho personal propagati of cfaol- l i 50 ™* 18 K™ 6 ^ a ! 1 “ ^ 8 P on ' cra, especially as it formctly ivanced Unelt y a >'-forthwith immediate move- with the slowness with whic) eastern ment P cculiar “> ll V 0 ^at before you can put ear muffs on your corn, tho ears are frozen and the season’s work is nothing but frost bitten chaos and wpted wrgck. Still with all this knowledge and in the light of a full experience wo had years ago a man on the plains named Ilayford, who had been a fever and ague doctor a year or two in tho South till people told him that they preferred tho ague to the stylo of knowledge he had. Then ho drifted West, worked on the night shift in a Colorado mine and practiced law in a quiet, shyster kind of a way till tho vigilantes got all his practice and threatened to get him. Then lie came to Wyoming to grow up with tho country, started a paper and printed it on one of those tittle ama teur card presses that sell for three dollars. This paper ho published every dayy-aad in the old Hush times during tho building of the Union Pacific rail way. sold it at twenty-five cents a week. He used it as a little pocket blackmailer and worried himself into office by knowing things about promi nent men and threatening to publish them. Well, bo was the champion of irri gation in Wyoming, and he devoted a stickful a day to Wyoming agricultural possibilities. He favored tho organi zation of a stock compauy for tho pur pose of constructing a canal thirty miles long to irrigate a dozen town ships. Ho said we had heretofore raised nothing but hemp and bell, and ho favored this great scheme. Finally ho got it to going and tho company was organized, and a civil engineer from Missouri named Crout took a cast- iron plow and a "bull team” and con structed tho pioneer canal, as it was called. Tho canal worked well enough where the cuts were, but along tho fill Mr. Crout found, when it was too late, that he had forgotten to put on any side boards, and therefore' the water slopped over and went down tho gulch es and buffalo wallows and alkali fiats that didn’t need any irrigation. Alto gether tho scheme was a Failure. There is some water back a mile from the river where it has run down during tho Juno freshets when tho snow melts in the mountains, nnd there the antelope comes to drink and wriggle his brief tail, but there are no fields of waver- ing grain. Not a wave. Irrigation on the Laramie plains is still confined to that class pt agriculture where two men soak slices of pine apple in spirits and greet each other with the Indian toast, "How!”—Bill Nye, in New York Mercury. caravans carried the tea aero* the iatfc prairies. In Asia, in tho neighborhoa of Cal cutta; in Arabia, near Mecca and in Egypt, not farm from Cairo* aro the breeding-places of cholera. There famine is a frequent occurren|. Tho people grow up surrounded *y filth such as an American citizen *as not the faintest idea of, and an ifectious disease finds tho most fuvorab) condi tions for its development in tose un healthy districts. Tho pilgrin who in thousands yearly proceed froi Egypt to Mecca, and who live off thepoorost food and amid tho greatest qualor, carry with them the seeds of 'bolera, and thus form tho connecting ink in the transmission of tho disome from Asia to Africa. If wo conslcr tho commercial importance of AUandria wo can not wonder that the holera, once epidemic in Egvpt, shoukswiftly travel to Europe. Thus far icdical history has not recorded a siqle in stance of an original out-break < chol era anywhere but at the place, men tioned. Filth seems to bo the sue qua non of its development and clcfiliness tho most powerful barrier to itsuarch. Thu fact has been establish^ that tho human being alone acts as to car rier of the cholera poison. TWo is no well-authenticated case on '■ecord where rags or clothing, as hai been proven of yellow fever, has traujnittod tho infectious material of tho Asiatic I disease. In olden times, when to rail-! roads, no steamships, hastenrd the i travel, tho march of cholera ko|t pact*' with tho rapidity, respective slqvncss, j of human intercourse. Tho tisease either followed tho road o! tho great tea caravans, which brought the high- priced loaves from Asia to iussiik or it traveled the usual ways o: commerce across the Mediterranean sia. Whcre- over a largo belt of tvatc.* separated two countries tho epkfepic disease marched from the one to tae other in the same length of time tint it took a ship to sail across the waur. Such in stances wo saw in the spreading of the contagion from tbecontimctof Europe across the channel to Ingland and from Great Britain to Amfrica. In tho latter case the infectious material is not wafted across' the Atlantic ocean and carried the long distance by tho air. From the moment of tho out break of cholera in Eigland about seven days must at least (lapse ere the il)S first case of tho disease cm happen in our country, for tho fastest steamer needs about that time to cross the ocean. Wo know, therefore, lotg since that neither in Europe nor America could Asiatic cholera develop iaelf without its germ having first bee* introduced into these countries. Wi also wore aware of tho fact that human inter course aloue propagates the contagion, and experience has taught us that filth favored and cleanliness pnvented the spread of the disease. In modern times, where public hygiene had be come such an important factor in the governing of nations, whore tho public sanitary matters are generally under stood and highly appreciated in civil ized countries, the facts just enumer ated have been made subservient to the general welfare of the people. The original breeding-places of tho malady were first determined; then the utmost precautions were taken on the first signs of the outbreak of the disease to confine it to its limits—to isolate the district attacked. Besides every state, every city, every county established its* own board of health. This board had to see that tho greatest cleanliness existed in its locality, and that travel ers from the suspected regions were first quarantined ere they were per mitted to enter the protected district. That it is possible to limit tho spread of Asiatic cholera, to lesser The num ber of its victims, and to diminish its severity by the measures just described, tiie experiences of the last ten years has proven. The last epidemio just reached our shore, but, finding no suitable soil for its development, it died out of its own account after hav ing attached a few victims in the filth iest quarter* of the metropolis. The epidemics which last year raged in Egypt and Calcutta were totally confined to ral starting pomt Perha proof of the utility Hair Dressing in the Soudan. The Bishareen are a fine, tall slender, but well proportioned. The negro delights In his ootton-field. To him, “Dar’s nothin’ like cotton, sab.’’Wife and children all “tote” to the field, and, after an extra hard day’s labor, they invito their neighbor in to have a dance. An invitation came to mo and from a small boy one even ing "to toto ober to Brudder Syca more’s, case dey’s gwine to hah a time.” The boy had barely clothes enough on to cover his black skin, but he was an active, fine-looking little fellow, the grandson of Brudder Syca more, who lived in a cabin two miles away.” "What do they do when they have a time?” I asked. The boy grinned, showing teeth as white as cocoa-meat, as ho gave the universal answer: "Dunno.” "Are they going to dance?” I asked. "Yes; Uncle Juniper ho got a fiddle,” was tho reply. "Is there any Uncle Water Oak or Spruce Pine in your family?” I in quired. "Dar’s Uncle Jured—dey calls him Water Oak,” was tho grinning reply. "Wlmt other trees does your house hold represent?” I asked. "Duuno,” with a chuckle. That evening, in company with a friend, I went to Brudder Sycamore’s log cabin. Tho usual tires were burning, round which hovered coal-blagt imps, shouting and laughing, dancing first on one leg, and then on the other. Inside tho cabin chairs were brought in for tho white party. The cabin had a yawning fireplace and a mud floor. Candles stuck in potatoes graced every corner and every spot where they could be made available. The company sat on boards ranged round the sides of the cabin while the fiddle was being tuned up. At last it seemed to me 1 had got into a prayer-meeting, every body was so grave. Presently a dea- conish-looking young man, with a hi shock oi hair, stood up and beckone a girl on the opposite side, who came over with much embarrassment, shak ing her shoulders like a child, and stood up to dance. Then the fiddle began with a wail of unspeakable des pair. and presently another and then another couple joined in tho dance. It was not till they were thoroughly warmed up that they began to beat the air and pound the mud floor. By de grees the enthusiasm of tho dance dis played itself. One commenced to shout and sing, and another to use all kinds of ejaculations, till finally it looked like a scene from pandemonium. I tried to get at tho words, which ran like this: Jos, you darky, take vour turn. Oh, dar's a ringin’ ob da bellal Sue, dem pancakes Is on de turn. Oh, dar's a ringin' ob do bells! De sky Is clear an' de moon la bright. An'de coon la a gwine fur to sleep to night. Meantime the children had extem- E orised a ball-room out of doors and ooted and screamed as they ran through tho fire, danced over tho flames, and shouted in ever-increasing hilarity. Presently I saw an old gray- beared man take a strong young girl by the suoulders and deliberately put her outside the door. “What has she done?” I asked, for the black face was very sulky. "Done break do rules ob de dance, I reckon,'” was th* reply. "What rules?” "Laws, dar’s hundreds of’em; Uncle Sycamore knows,” was the answer. When wo went away the girl still sat angrily biting her lingers on the bench outside the door, and in her eyes was a dangerous light. “Wliat did you stop dancing for?” I asked her. She looked up, but an swered never a word, and we went offi wondering if she had flirted with some other girl’s sweetheart.—Florida Cor. San Francisco Chronicle. Perhap* of strict sanitary measures was given by the epidemio in Egypt- In the immediate neighborhood of the infected jjlace chase of the /eras naturae, which abound race— Thov take especial care of their teeth, which are regular and of lustrous whiteness, which is in part dno to their simple diet, and in part due to a root (taki- wood) which they chew perpetually. Their dress is scanty but graceful. It consists of a piece of white linen wound around tho waist and thrown over the shoulder. Each man carries a Ion straight sword and a shield of small mensions, made of hippopotamus or rhinoceros hide. A spear is carried in the right hand. The Bishareen, in common with the rest of the Arab tribes in the eastern Soudan, take great personal pride in their hair. A consid erable portion of their lives is spent in its adornment I doubt whether a Pa risian coiffeur would care to take les sons in his metier from these children of the desert, bat he would be puzzled to imitate them. The hair is jet blaek, coarse, wiry and abundant It is part* ed in a horizontal line ronnd the head, the parting passing close to the ears; the hair above this line is perpendicu lar and looks like a mop. Below it is plated and frizzed, and sticks ont over the neck and shoulders like the roof of a pent-honse, doubtless affording groat protection to the back of the neck from the rays of the sun. The whole is stiff ened with grease, and when the Bisha- reen;has n*wly performed his toilet and grease is plentiful, his sable looks assume tho snowy whiteness of those of Jeames. The son melts the grease, which drips on to the back and shoul ders, forming a deposit bv no means savory of the conventional' spicy odors of ‘‘Araby the blest” A long skewer or hairpin transfixes this wonderful coiffeur, and serves tho double purpose of a comb and a weapon used in the Phosphorescence of Diamonds. A curious point in diamond lore has just been established to tho dolight of savants in Paris, where tho exhibition of tho crown jewels at the Louvre has made the subject very popular for the moment. It has long been laid down that tho diamond has the power of re taining light and of afterward emitting it in the dark. The theory has been well buttressed by reasons; but the proof has not been easy of test Ail, or nearly all. of the great diamonds— such as the Kohinoor, tho Regent, tho Grand Mogul—can not for public reasons, be made the subject of expe riment, and stones of lesser size do not always give satisfactory results. Happily, a private individual, the own er of a gem of carats, and estimated at a value of 300,000 francs, has lent his diamond for scientific investiga tions. Theso have been most satisfao- tor, and the "phosphorescence” of the stone may be regarded as proved. The diamond was exposed for an hour to the direct action of tho sun’s rays and afterward removed into a dark room. For more than twenty minutes after ward it emitted a light, feeble, indeed, but still sufficiently strong to make a sheet of white paper held near it qnite visible in the dark. A similar result was arrived at by a very different ex periment, and light was generated by nibbing the stone with a piece of hard flannel—Poll Mall Oasette. The Buffet Oar. some place thousands of English soldiers were camping; many foreigners from all parts of the civilized world ware then living not fifty miles froa^ the dangerous district; a greatly segmented Intercourse took place between Egypt •ad Europe, and still th* disease agrir in its immediate Magasine. vidn ity,—Comhill inking” with notched is retired for the silks that change from oae color to another. The dld-time and scalloped d-time "pinkln doped Mges is of ohattmeoai “I do declare, James,” said farmer’s wife, as she walked about waiting-room reading the railway ad vertisements, "here’s something I never hoard tell on before. A buffet car. What do you suppose that is, James?” "Don’t you know what a buffet ear is, Sarah? Guess you haven’t been reading much of late, have you? You ought to know thAt a buffet car is a car recently invented to pnt on the end of the train. It is fixed up with springs and thing* and is de signed to act as a sort of Duffer for the rest of the train in case of collisions. They're making such improvements in railroading au the while, Sarah, I b’lieve, if It wern't for me to tell yon what is going on in the world, yon wouldn’t imow anything.” An mronantio detachment of engto* eers has been formed in Berlin, and th bard at work learning the ut of iBiiitary baUooniOfs No Longer a Deceit. One more miracle, says the New York Bun, has been wrought in the orient The whole length and breadth of the great Algerian desert arid and almost without vegetable life for years, is now a mass of living green. Dry, sandy Sahara is a luxuriant grassy ! arden, rich and refreshing as a New ngland orchard. Notwithstanding the elaboratelv formulated scientific theories, which arranged for continued dryness in Al geria, until tho reluctant inhabitants wore forced to leave the country or die of thirst so dismal an exodus is not likely to take place at present Last winter the rainfall was beyond precedent so far as the memory of the “oldest inhabitant” goes, and copious thunderstorms continued all through the spring months and even into the summer. Such a wet season there never was in Algeria before, and in consequence this season’s crops will constitute p...utiful abundance personi fied. The uuo fear of the farmers is that tho rain may last throughout the summer and interfere with their harvests. Rain in winter is frequent enough in this naturally dry climate, but it is seldom excessive. The only harm it has done is to dissolve tho raw, sun- dried brick of which the houses are built. Scores of families have seen their homes melt under their very noses without any means of checking the destruction. Even tho French garrisons lost their barracks and wore compelled to accommodate themselves to tent life. This soluble Algerian brick, called "attob,” corresponds ex actly with the "adobe” of the Mexi cans and Spanish Americans. Phi lologists, in fact, pretend ,to trace both to a common Arabic origin. In support of the theory or fallacy that the desert is gradually creeping toward tho sea-coast is the fact that countless ruins exist in Tripoli and Tunis, marking the places where con siderable vegetation unco was bat now is not. The truth is, however, that their desertion is not due to any nat ural phenomena, bnt wholly and en tirely to tho depredative invasions of nomadic Arabs, *vho finally killed off and drove away all of tho unfortunate inhabitants of the present ruins. Tho wells with which the latter sustained vegetable growth in their region are now filled with dry sand. They coaid easily be opened again and made just as servicoaolo as formerly. Tho taxes, too, were dreadful enough to discour age any race or people and probably had some influence upon the depopu lation. Tho constant decrease of the wood land is dangerous to every interest and should be legislated against. By pre serving the timber now standing, by planting more, and by taking advant age of the same opportunities that have so wonderfully increased the rain-fall in western North America, tho great desert of Sahara could be redeemed from its supposed perpetual aridity and become one of the greenest, rich est and grandest in all the earth. Tightly-Fitting GloTesu *T want a No. 6, ten-button black kid glove!” The speaker came into a Broadway glove store yesterday and seated herself before tho tired-looking attendant, with an "and-don’t-you-for- get-it" sort of an air. "A 6! Are they for yourself?” asked an attendant, looking questioningly at tho enstomer's hand. “Why, of course they are for me. Do you think I wear an 1|?” "Excuse mo. I thought that per- hapvyou had made a mistake, and was about to suggest measuring your hand.'' "I guess I know what size glove I wear. They cost me enough goodness knows.” No more was said. The customer selected a pair of sixes, paid her $3.25 for them and departed. "Do you have many such custom ers?” asked a reporter who had been a witness of the scene. "Very many. AU are not so snap pish, however. It is strange what an amount of torture ladies wUl undergo to wear a small glove. That lady ought never to wear a glove smaller than a seven. I do not wonder her gloves cost her a great deal. Gloves are the most costly items of a lad; dress. The most frequent compl against gloves is that the fingers are too short. The trouble really is, the glove is too small everywhere. A lady who should take'a six and three-quar ter glove can get her hand into a six and ono-quarter glove; bnt in doing so the length of the glove is taken np in the width, consequently the fingers, instead of going well on, only go partly on. The tnumb fares still worse, for it retches, as a rule, only down to within a quarter of an inch of its prop er termination. The end of the glove which is made to go around the wrist has to be buttoned across the ball of the thumb.” "What constitutes a well-fitting glove?” "One that conforms to the shape of the hand. Some think a glove to fit well must fit tightly. Such is not the fact. A comparatively loose-fitting S ’ovo has a better appearance than one at is half a size too small. Some wo men are not content unless their gloves are so tight that their fingers look like sausages, and tho back of tho hand like parchment stretched over a drum head. If ladies would wear their gloves so that they could put them on without the aid of powder or the troub le of working them on for an hour, their hands would bo better dres: and their glove bills reduced tw< thirds. 1 should not complain, though, 1 suppose, for it makes business good, and that is tho main point with us after all.”—N. Y. Mail and Express. HENRY CLAY'S HORSE. Tb# Nag the Greatest Stateaman Won at a Game of Poker. Rhymes In the MHO* A Washington letter in tho Honston Post says: 4 T recollect Henry Clay’s turn out very well.” said an old-timer; "he had one of the (fid stylo Concord bug- f ios, with a top that suggested a [other Hubbard bonnet. It was evi- dentit a second-hand affair that Mr. Clay had picked up in » trade, and nowadays would do very well for a woman to haul vegetables around tofrn in. Tho cushions wore stuffed with moss and were so well worn you could see the moss, sticking out at the sides. I’ll bet Henry Clay didn’t know what a lap-robe was, and, as for a whip, ho didn’t have any. He used to slash his old sorrel stallion with the ends of the reins so loud you could hoar it a block off. Tho steps to tho buggy were gqpo and Mr. Clay used to jump over the wheels. When he wanted to got in ho put one foot over tho hub and swung tho other around over tho wheel and dash-board. Tho wheels wore so high ho had to let tho top down to got out They had axle-groaso in those days, but Mr. Clay had evidently never found it out He always drove his horse at a canter, you could hear the front wheels of his buggy squeaking as many notes as there are on a piccolo. "Ah, well do I remember that sorrel stallion,” continued tho old-timer. "Henry Clay won him one night at poker in John Hancock's saloon, which is still rnnning on the avenue, from Col. Jim Bright who lived at Falls Church, Va. Bright used to come over every week and play with Clay, and he generally wont back to Falls Church with a pocketful of money. Bnt that | was Clay’s lucky night Ho got away 1 with $1,200 of Bright’s money, his watch, saddle and bridle, overcoat saddle bags, a new suit of clothes that were in the saddle-bags, throe finger- rings and a breastpin, a brace of pistols anu a bowio knife, and a pair of boots "Oh, you needn’t laugh,” said tho old-timer, with great animation; "that’s the way they played poker in them days. A man went the whole hog or nothing. Why, didn't you never hear of tho time Henry Clay bet himself clean down to his undershirt and ho offered to pull that off, bnt tho other follow didn’t wear an undershirt to put up against it Well, sir, it’s so, any how. and tho very table ho played the game on is now in the front room, up-stairs, in Hancock’s saloon. It is an old pine table about three feet square, with a hole in the middle to drop tho porcont- ago through for threes, fulls, flushes, and jack-pots. Well sir about that old stallion. He was well known around Washington for several years. Ho always nickered when Clay came near him. Clay carried a pocketful of shelled com, and he gave tho horse a handful every time ho got into the baggy. Tho boys knew the stallion yroll, and they used to give him pieces of bread, cake, nuts, or anything of the sort He’d eat watermelon and meat, and I’ve seen him cat wads of paper as though he was trying to make the boys laugh. Well, sir, Clay had a nigger named Sam. One day ho loaned the stallion to Sam to drive to Alexandria. Sam got drunk before ho left town, and he started out on a gallop. He didn’t stop till ho got to Mount Vernon, twenty miles off. There he turned around and galloped all the way back. The old stallion dropped dead at the edge of South Washington. There were over one hundred boys at the fnneral In revenge Clay sold the nignor to a Louisiana sugar-planter, with a proviso in the bill of sale that the planter should hitch Sam in shafts and work him in the cane-mill Fact, sir!” Some very curious and fanny letters are received at the Dead-Letter Ottos. The outside of some is more onkme •note than the inside. say to show more The following relopes ox which have found their i Dead-Letter Office. They poetical bent of the writers: "Fly little mesMnver, quick and straight. To Humboldt County of Iowa State: Fly, little messenger, aad Book with MM For Miss Annie Fabey, you'll flad bar , tboro.” Unfortunately there was no stamp on it, and the matter-of-fact P. M. hustled it off to the Dead-Letter Office. A trusting parent writes on the en velope of his letter: this letter to b great < sad the i to ay sob, who of red oxen, and tho railroad “Please send drives a team runs throurh his plaoe.” Another envelope has: “ Rummer’s letter, send It ahMd, Dead broke and nary a red; Postmaster, put this letter throurh, And when 1 ret paid I’ll pay you." Another envelope has this address: “James Irwin. Try all over the Stats." Still another brief address is: “H. A. Kenyon, P. M„ 111.” A would-be housekeeper pats on the envelope: “P. M. Please forward to tho physician who was looking for a housekeeper In 8t. Louis lost week; Isa widower with two chil dren; don’t know hts name.” 9 This is no doubt an answer to an ad vertisement. It is a pity the widow did not get it Another envelope has: “To Oonoral W. Knowles this letter Is sent. To the town of Brighton where the other ono went No matter who wrote It—a friend or a foe— To the State of New York I hope It will fa" But it went to tho Dead-Letter Office instead. Another envelope has: “Hello! Uncle 8am; let me go In your wall As I’ve taken a notion to ride on anil To Illinois Stage, and there let me stop. And In McLean Co. jnat please let me drop; In LeRoy P. O. there let me my. Until Reason K. Oay take# me away. 1 "Flvu mfovta —irefa tL. _ —Noristostn. An ‘ex brought t long drink oost "Ont cook m steak!” cxelafas tioolarly alee | kitchen boned to a erlsf Free Press. A Kentucky in a duel aad It Is tkwattft accident will have the Cjfin^ a damper on dealing hi f Boston Post. "An Amerioan lady Italian Prince a year i eft him.” The Mm* through her fertnue < Jersey City JoumnL But tho says— P. M.’s reply jost below idy’s laint & says tuo Detroit rre politics, and presently white plug hat iitqui whom do you consult They sat side by side on the car, says tho Detroit Free Press, talking the man in the utred: “Colonel you consider the greatest living orator?” The colonel coughed, stroked his chin whiskers, and no reply. At the end of the block he got off without a word, and a ger on the opposite seat loaned I and said to tne white hat man: "That’s a pretty blunder you made! Why he's the very mair himself I” "in that soP’ gasped the other; and he an to th* platform to watohhbn ootedi “Played out, my dear boy. There is no use In talking. If you can’t pay yonr way You’ll have to trr walking." One who waa careful to pay postage wrote— “Now baste with this letter as fast as yea can. I've just paid your fare to good UDole flai The ease Is quite urgent, so don’t stop to think. Don't tarry for lunebea or even a drink, Lvman street you will very toon find. Where the people are honeat, good-natnrs4 and kind, Frank Taylor, the roan to whom yoe must BO, Is 48 Lyman street, Cleveland, Ohio.” — Washington Capital. How Commodore Garrieoa Fell In love. "How did the a his young wife?” ilntance Making Screws. The process of making •crqmp is a very interesting one. The ron^, large wire in big coils is, by drawing through a hole of less diameter than itself, made the needed size. Then it goes into a machine that at ono motion cuts it a proper length and makes a head on it. Then it is put into sawdust and ’Tattled,” and thus brightened. Then the head is shaved down smoothly to the proper size and the nick pul In at the same time. After,‘Tattling” again in the sawdust, the thread is cut by another machine, and after another "rattling” and a thorough drying, the screws are assorted by hand (the fingers of those who do this move al most like lightning), grossed by weight and packed for shipment That which renders it possible for machines to do all this is a little contrivance that looks and opens like a goose’ bill, which picks up a single screw at a thine, car ries it where needed, holds it until grasped by something else, and returns for another. This is one of the most wonderful pieces of automatic ma chinery ever seen, and it does its dis tinctive work at the rate of thirty-one screws a minute, although this rate is only experimental as yet. Ninety- three gross a day, however, has been the regular work of ouo machine.— Philadelphia Inquirer. The Origin of the Turnpike. An etymological crank has discover ed that the name of turnpike comes from having a pike hang across a road way so that no one could pass without turning it. Toll-roads were instituted about 600 years ago, the first one being built in England by a monk whose self appointed work was to guard the shrine of St Anthony, on Higngate HOI Not having mnch to do he carted dirt from tiie top of the hill and filled up a deeg ed commodore asked of au qusintance. "She whistled and he came to her, my lad,” was tho reply,"but she didn't do it in the spirit of ths girl lu th* bel* lad. It happened six years ago tide summer, and in the very hotel in which we are sitting. Garrison hod been for forty years a widower. He was a tasty old fellow and had not been suspected of c&ring a rap for women. The poe* session of somewhere from $10,000,00(1 to $16,000,000, mnch of it in compli cated use for the promotion of railroa< and steamship schemes, had hsrsied him all winter and spring, aad he come down here for rest and qotet. He took a suite of the best rooms in t^4 row of cottages whioh are an annex «! the main establishment, that he would there be a littie from the bustle of a public hone*, it was for a few days as he had anticipated. Then the family 1L Randall of St. Louis, took sion of nnmbered adjoining apartments. They d a half dozen persmtCfnolud* ing a tiuon persona; ugh tin on the commodore heard aad whistler. Through the thin per* m !8l Don't be’ money th* I A! Caught a j Off* ont the walls ot the 1 If the faults *( virtue*, aad hie 1 would be so i he couldn't tteyl of the mailer.—i In i Dtettft Ml * IP** m • wUraottoVj irsEw tasted child does not youngster it godparents. A southern s husband ticks with • rat,” end Honoris evttcftthr would' An c town, Ga., has floor. Now If \ oonld cook, wash the cows, what a! be as a wife—j end In conns otian with 1 ties hs has lots of ptes never been WI any Mg eua #f I’m glad BBhr had marry a settled era ftteH ma Wiakum *t I kinder ths "What, yelled a I "DnU tt tM, cia? Wo inn m%m wv» disliked I Kw it tA WJW IHre annoyed by the whistling. He it exceedingly. He was driven by it to exasperation. There was a boy in ths Randall party, and to him ths vettraft attributed the aolse. He would no* at [i that time hear the soft melody of tlte whistle, nor its clever fidelity to tnf music which it interpreted, but simply kept his ears open to it as a torture. Randall was an acquaintyce of ■ his, and one day he said tfohlm, as they sat chatting on the veranda: ’That boy of yours will be the death of me, John. Won’t you plug his mouth, just to please me?’ > " ‘Oh, it ain’t the boy,’ replied Bap* dall, ‘but my daughter. Here, Leti- tia!’ "It was a lovely girl of SO who re sponded to tho call and was presented to the commodore. She whistled for him that evening’ta apiano ment, and it was no Jo to him. They were married ia. the suing October u a million dollars in sound In no season sine* that has any belle at Long Branch been dressed or diverted in a more costly manner than the fair whistler.”—BaWtnere Ameri can. ■w i w» - - His wedding "gift was * securities. The Pecan Tree. hollow. In doing this he expended his fortune, but the King came to the rescue, and published a decree address ed to our well-beloved William Philip- There is * no' pi in which, after approving the mo tives which induced him to benefit our The pecan tree is found in a wild state in the woods of the varioi tions of the South and West It _ to a very largo size, and bears yitarly many bushels of fine-flavored nuta. Though little or no attention has beeft paid to these valuable tree* cultiva tion greatly improves them, the ant S rowing mnch larger and improving in avor. The pecan tree lives to a age, and continnes long in * There is no good reason why it not be grown extensive! tho United States. It i to almost ant kind of, sofl, even on rocky hint and rood an what "I don't scs ha te* sir!” tiy of tirat "What lie prosperity?” "Money, pra b*d bey a* th* I «gr. Mot Hhal down -^.to line shot The boy who! called six timaa i without I his piste pamuatoi is out of formad,aJ they ninei JJJJ "And act lorsly ignorant 11 Qaieksoat ktst people passing through the highway between Higbgato and Smitiifield, in many places notoriously miry and deep, fixed him to set up a bar and many be au take toll so that he might keep the road in order and himself in comfort and dignity. > nut or fruit tree valuable aad requiring so little tion. Every fanner, hi my should have his not orchard, rate especially th* peean or sate. The nuts always sale at „ . ^ , trees the only ohfaet ia fresh nute. cf toflMtl